“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
Robert Frost · Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length, 1942
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Happiness Quotes
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119 quotes on happiness and hope — from the classics to the everyday.
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
Voltaire
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
Charles Dickens · Nicholas Nickleby, 1839
“You know how paradise is supposed to be a place on Earth in the summer time.”
Diane Arbus · Photographic essay and interviews
“The smell of the grass, the taste of the rain, the feeling that anything was possible.”
Margaret Mitchell · Gone with the Wind
“The summer I was fifteen I felt alive all the way down to my toenails.”
Joyce Carol Oates · Bellefleur
“The days are longer and the responsibilities are fewer, and you feel yourself expand and stretch and come alive again.”
Vivian Gornick · Unfinished Woman
“This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.”
Maya Angelou
“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.”
Monica Baldwin · "I Leap Over the Wall", 1949
“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.”
Yoko Ono
“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”
Prince
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
J.B. Priestley
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, 1840
“Then followed that beautiful season called summer, filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Evangeline, 1847
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
L.M. Montgomery · Anne of Green Gables, 1908
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James · As quoted by Edith Wharton in A Backward Glance, 1934
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
Maud Hart Lovelace · Betsy-Tacy, 1940
